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Z for Zachariah In Z for Zachariah there has been a nuclear explosion which Burdon valley survived, as the valley is a nuclear enclave which means a place has its own climate, and Anne a girl who was left at home when her family went ou...

"Utopia: n .an impractical idealistic scheme for social and political reform" - The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition For over twenty years the Iraqi-born, English educated architect Zaha Hadid has symbo...

In many ways Zbigniew Herbert is a paradigmatic twentieth-century Eastern European poet. His life and poetry, like the fate of his native country and the history of the region, were indelibly marked by the experiences of World War II and o...

SOURCE: Wills, David and Alec McHoul. “Zoo-logics: Questions of Analysis in a Film by Peter Greenaway.” Textual Practice 5, no. 1 (spring 1991): 8–24. In the following essay, Wills and McHoul examine how A Zed and Two Noughts function...

Zenna Henderson (nee Chlarson) was born in the foothills of the South Catalina Mountains near Tucson, Arizona. She grew up in a strongly religious atmosphere that has had a profound effect on her writing. Henderson received a B.A. from Ari...

What if someone told you that motion was not real and had a way to prove it? That is just what Zeno of Elea did in his studies during the 400s BC. I chose this topic in hopes to learn something new, and I did. I also chose this topic bec...

There is a young man involved with violence, drugs, and alcohol. He is not in any sports, and he has not joined any after school activities. Everyday at school and at home, he smokes pot. Up until now he hasn't been severely punished for ha...

Chu Hsi (1130-1200) was one of the greatest Chinese scholars and philosophers. The system of Neo-Confucianism of which Chu Hsi is regarded as the spokesman represents a summary of doctrines of his predecessors as well as original ideas of ...

"Growing up in a rather limited, narrow environment," Zilpha Keatley Snyder writes in Innocence & Experience: Essays & Conversations on Children's Literature, "I escaped through books and games into a much wider world. I loved almo...

SOURCE: "American Psycho," in The New York Times Book Review, October 8, 1995, p. 13. Below, Marcus links the main character of Zombie with the recurrent theme of violence in Oates's fiction, faulting the novel's premise. Divided into 57 mi...

SOURCE: "Zoot Suit: From the Barrio to Broadway," in Ideologies & Literature, Vol. III, No. 15, January-March 1981, pp. 124-33. In the essay below, Davis and Diamond charge that Zoot Suit is "a bad play, politically and aesthetically. " Zoo...

The book Zoot Suit has symbolic significance for Mexican Americans and tells about the riots during World War II. The Sleepy Lagoon Murder was one step in the fight for the rights and respect of Mexican American's. This riot involved youn...

From the 1930s through the 1960s, Zora Neale Hurston was the most prolific and accomplished black woman writer in America. During that thirtyyear period she published seven books, many short stories, magazine articles, and plays, and she g...

Zoroaster (ca. 628 BC- ca. 551 BC) was a prophet of ancient Iran and the founder of the Iranian national religion. Zoroastrianism is ranked with Judaism, Christianity, and Islam among the higher religions originating in the Middle East. Th...

SOURCE: Barnes, Anne. Review of The Beautiful Empire, by Zulfikar Ghose. Times Literary Supplement, no. 3853 (16 January 1976): 65. In the following review, Barnes observes that Ghose's experimental prose in The Beautiful Empire is difficul...

Hitler's forces used gassing as a means of mass murder. Gassing was used because it was the least costly and most efficient way to exterminate many people at once. A Gassing chamber was about thirty by seven yards, had white plaster wal...